Krillion Recorded answers
6,313 recorded answers
How to approach it
Reverse the usual move: instead of hunting for one item, generate a wide field of candidates quickly, then test each against the date. Choose a broad arena of old practical life — the household, the building site, the workshop, the battlefield, the sickroom — and jot down five or six concrete things from each, written with the precise term a specialist would use rather than the everyday word. Scrutiny comes next: does a written source place the thing before 1500, and is it an object, a technique or a system rather than a plant, a dish or a drink? Width first, judgement afterwards. Since the reveal rewards volume, keep extending the shortlist and note spelling variants of every entry, because a narrow technical label is often the form the list accepts.
Get a hint
Begin with the working capital of ordinary life in antiquity: the tools, containers, fastenings and structures people handled daily rather than the ceremonial pieces kept for the powerful.
A little more
Narrow next to problems that demanded a designed solution — keeping accounts, lifting water, marking the hour, landing a blow in combat, closing a wound — and ask whether a documented remedy predates 1500.
One step further
Finally, favour the specialist's label over the household word: a single implement, one named building element or a particular notation usually sits in reference works under a term nobody says aloud today.
Reveal answers 6,313
- Lean-to roofDeep Cut85points
- Leather craftingDeep Cut85points
- Leather moneyDeep Cut85points
- LebesDeep Cut85points
- LecternDeep Cut85points
- LedgerDeep Cut85points
- LeeboardDeep Cut85points
- Leech fibulaDeep Cut85points
- LehengaDeep Cut85points
- Lehr (glassmaking)Deep Cut85points
- Lei (bronze vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Leilira bladeDeep Cut85points
- LéineDeep Cut85points
- LeisterDeep Cut85points
- LekaneDeep Cut85points
- LekanisDeep Cut85points
- LekythosDeep Cut85points
- LembosDeep Cut85points
- LendnerDeep Cut85points
- Leper clapperDeep Cut85points
- Lepontic alphabetDeep Cut85points
- LescheDeep Cut85points
- LeseneDeep Cut85points
- Letter blocksDeep Cut85points
- LetterlockingDeep Cut85points
- LetziDeep Cut85points
- Levallois techniqueDeep Cut85points
- LeveeDeep Cut85points
- LewisDeep Cut85points
- Li (tripod vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Liang chuanDeep Cut85points
- LiangdangDeep Cut85points
- Lianhua guanDeep Cut85points
- Liaoning-type bronze daggerDeep Cut85points
- Library catalogDeep Cut85points
- LiburnaDeep Cut85points
- Lierne vaultDeep Cut85points
- Lifting stoneDeep Cut85points
- LigatureDeep Cut85points
- Ligature (medicine)Deep Cut85points
- Light wellDeep Cut85points
- Lighter (barge)Deep Cut85points
- LigulaDeep Cut85points
- LiliaDeep Cut85points
- LilissuDeep Cut85points
- Liman irrigationDeep Cut85points
- Lime spoonDeep Cut85points
- Lime washDeep Cut85points
- Lime-blowing chariotDeep Cut85points
- LinchpinDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is unusually flat: a single recorded pick took the full hundred, while more than five thousand earned eighty-five and seven hundred more stopped at sixty. That shape points to a closed list graded by rarity rather than by correctness — nearly everything submitted was accepted and then levelled. The lone maximum went to Pythagorean cup, an ingenious contrivance few players would reach for. The eighty-five band is vast and reads like a catalogue of specialist vocabulary: Ab anbar, Abat-son, Abatis, Abjad numerals, Acinaces, Acoustic jar, Acta Diurna. Each is a real thing from before 1500, yet each sits inside a niche — water supply, architecture, fortification, notation, armament — so finding one depends on knowing that corner of the field, not on luck. The sixty-point tier, seven hundred strong, probably collects the more familiar choices that many players hit at once. The practical lesson: obvious picks keep you in the middle of the pack, and the extra points come from the technical term.